Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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Yes.
Well, the day before that, I was teaching and performing research at Harvard Medical School.
And I'm a gross anatomist, which means cadaver, entire body, as well as histology, which is tissue, as well as neuro.
So I'm all about anatomy.
So I teach and performing research at Harvard Medical School.
And I woke up the next day, and I was experiencing a major hemorrhage in the left half of my brain.
So I woke up, I sat up, and I immediately had a pulsing pound behind my left eye.
And generally, I didn't have that.
And it was pretty severe.
And it got all of my attention.
And I have my before and after is before and after that morning.
Well, I thought, wow, that's weird.
And it's the caustic pain that you get when you bite into ice cream.
It's like that freeze brain.
And I thought, okay.
And I felt suddenly weak.
And I thought, okay.
So I got up and light was...
kind of burning on my eyes.
It was, I didn't want light in the morning that day.